Chicago 224

Photography and Media

1953

Aaron Siskind
American, 1903–1991

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Aaron Siskind
Title: Chicago 224
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1953
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, on mount, upper right, in graphite: "92" [encircled]; signed and inscribed verso, on mount, upper center, in graphite: "Aaron Siskind 1953 / Ch 224 / 4 / #8 do not include"; inscribed verso, center, in graphite: "2" [encircled]
Dimensions: Image/paper: 34.5 × 34.5 cm (13 5/8 × 13 5/8 in.); Mount: 55.9 × 45.8 cm (22 1/16 × 18 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. Noah Goldowsky
Reference Number: 1956.1269
Copyright: © Aaron Siskind Foundation.

Travis, David and Elizabeth Siegel. 2002. “Taken by Design: Photographs from the Institute of Design, 1937–1971,” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/University of Chicago Press. p. 128, cat. 176, pl. 112.

Art Institute of Chicago, “Textures and Fragments of the City: 20th Century Photographs from the Art Institute of Chicago Collection,” August 4–July 29, 1973. (David Travis)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Taken by Design: Photographs from The Institute of Design, 1937–1971,” March 2–May 12, 2002; traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 20–October 20, 2002; and Philadelphia Museum of Art, December 7, 2002–March 2, 2003. (David Travis and Elizabeth Siegel)
Houston, Texas, Museum of Fine Arts, “Aaron Siskind 100,” July 3-September 26, 2004; previously traveled to The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, September 30, 2001-January 6, 2002; Zoellner Arts Center, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, January 29-March 16, 2003; Center for Creative Photography, Tuscon, Arizona, March 8-July 6, 2003; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois, July 25-September 8, 2003; Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin, September 6, 2003-January 4, 2004; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, September 9-November 9, 2003; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, September 13-November 19, 2003; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, October 15, 2003-January 4, 2004; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York, October 15, 2003-January 4, 2004; Hanmi Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea, November 1-December 13, 2003; The RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, November 14, 2003-January 25, 2004.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Aaron Siskind: Abstractions,” April 16-August 14, 2016.

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